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Further, there was the prospect of several guests of position arriving in the course of the day, who would expect sport of some kind, and the inroads of the distemper (which continued among his game) had been lately so serious that he was afraid for his reputation as a game-preserver.But what really touched him most nearly was the other matter of his sleepless night.He could certainly not sleep in that room again.…Cited from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Pt 1,by M. R. James

"If Bowring had not been all but sure there was nothing in it, he would never have given it to me."He was not well, his sleepless nights having begun to tell even upon his powerful constitution.The rest of that afternoon and all of a night without sleep in the Pullman he was in a depth of despond.…Cited from God Success,John Graham (David Graham Phillips

An hour later Nejdanov was rolling up the courtyard leading to Sipiagin's house.He did not feel well after his sleepless night and the numerous discussions and explanations.A beautiful face smiled to him out of the window.…Cited from Virgin Soil, by Ivan S. Turgenev

The horses, their chins hung with icicles, stood with bowed heads, motionless.All of Doug's life passed in review before his sleepless eyes.He could not recall when he had not been shaping his days around Judith.…Cited from Judith of the Godless Valley, by Honore Willsie

He seemed very young to her, yet older than he had appeared before.Older he was, with a tired, haggard look left by his sleepless night.She could not restrain her heart from softening toward him, for he was such a boy -- just a boy.…Cited from Youth Challenges, by Clarence B Kelland

He was devoured with thirst, having merely rinsed his mouth in the black and poisonous water of the swamps he had crossed.His sleepless night, too, had told on him.He was bathed in perspiration, and for the last hour had scarcely been able to drag his feet along.…Cited from By Sheer Pluck, by G. A. Henty

He must rise and see what had happened, and whether any one was hurt.He might meet Alexa, and a talk with her would be a pleasant episode in his sleepless night.He got into his dressing-gown, and taking his stick, walked softly from the room.…Cited from The Elect Lady, by George MacDonald

The lights out, Sir Booum spent a terrible night, wondering what evil genius could thus attack his laurels.At dawn, worn out by his sleepless night, he set out, eager to learn the cause of his failure.All those whom he met winked knowingly, laughing in their sleeves, and courtesied to him without giving him any information.…Cited from The Curly-Haired Hen, by Auguste Vimar

He realized that he could not stand by and hear the things she doubtless would feel called upon to say in respect to Mary Braddock.His sleepless night had drawn many ugly pictures for him to efface before he could be at peace with himself.…Cited from The Rose in the Ring, by George Barr McCutcheon

After his sleepless night, in which thought had been feverish, he would spend some quiet, lonely hours.There was, he believed, no special reason, after the glance he had sent to Mrs. Armine just before he went out of Nigel's cabin, why he should hurry in the first hour of the new day to the sick man he meant to cure.…Cited from Bella Donna, by Robert Hichens

Arthur came in brief space, and looked with surprise into Dalaber's pale, set face.His wan looks told of his sleepless vigil, but he gave no chance for questions to be asked.…Cited from For the Faith, by Evelyn Everett-Green

Returning he saw the faint glow of candlelight in Joanne's tepee.Five minutes later she appeared, and all thought of danger, and the discomfort of his sleepless night, passed from him at sight of her.Her eyes were still a little misty with sleep when he took her in his arms and kissed her, but she was deliciously alive, and glad, and happy.…Cited from The Hunted Woman, by James Oliver Curwood

As for the Roman mountains, they are so totally unlike any other hills in the world, and so extremely beautiful in their own peculiar way, that to describe them would be an idle and a useless task, which could only serve to exhibit the vanity of the writer and the feebleness of his pen.Don Giovanni arrived early in spite of his sleepless night.He descended from his dogcart by the roadside, instead of driving into the field, and he took a careful survey of the carriages he saw before him.…Cited from Saracinesca, by F. Marion Crawford

And his drunken astuteness, it seemed, had been to his mind as a piece of bottle glass to the sight, distorting the image viewed through it.With some such bitter reflection rode he home to his sleepless couch.Some part of those dark hours he spent in bitter reviling of Wilding, of himself, and even of his sister, whom he blamed for this awful situation into which he had tumbled; at other times he wept from self-pity and sheer fright.…Cited from Mistress Wilding, by Rafael Sabatini

To win this masterpiece Darvid outbid a number of men of high standing; he triumphed and was delighted.But now his sleepless glance passed over that pearl of art inattentively.His night at the club instead of diverting and calming had bored and irritated.…Cited from The Argonauts, by Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)

Of the latter he saw many signs, and they sometimes came to his camp, but his sleepless wariness enabled him to avoid capture.Late in July his brother returned, and met him according to appointment at the old camp.…Cited from The Winning of the West, Volume One, by Theodore Roosevelt

He swore he could not sleep unless he heard the music of the water.And his sleepless nights were bad for his subjects.They generally hid in caves till the fountains were reported to be in working order again.…Cited from South Wind, by Norman Douglas

In another room, on his sleepless pillow, the baby's father turned and groaned.All the next day, and the next, Aggie went about with a light step, and with eyes that brightened like a bride's, because of the spring of new love in her heart.…Cited from The Judgment of Eve, by May Sinclair

With the mad city growing so fast, and the people of the tenements breeding, breeding, breeding, and packing the schools to bursting, what could any teacher be but a mere cog in a machine, ponderous, impersonal, blind, grinding out future New Yorkers?He reached home limp and battered from the storm of new impressions coming on top of his sleepless night.He had thought of a school as a simple place, filled with little children, mischievous at times perhaps and some with dirty faces, but still with minds and spirits clean, unsoiled as yet by contact with the grim spirit of the town.…Cited from His Family, by Ernest Poole

He said not a word with his lips; but how his bleeding heart did talk to God.Hot tears flowed from his sleepless eyes and dampened the dry leaves that formed his pillow.…Cited from The Deacon of Dobbinsville, by John A. Morrison